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We'd be hard put to decide whether Barry Fisher was better at fishing or storytelling. The three stories in this book are rollicking gems, salty as a flake of cod set out to dry. After a "wharf rat" childhood in Gloucester, Barry Fisher went offshore doryfishing when he was eighteen, fishing longline trawl gear from Grand Banks dories launched off the deck of a Schooner -- probably never recounted in such detail before by a fisherman. A few years later, he went on a late-season swordfishing trip, dory-dishing from a schooner with a crew betting against the weather and the odds that they'd come home with a catch.
Contents:
A Wharf Rat's Tale
A Doryman's Day
Mysterious Ways of the Lord
124 pp., softcover
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